The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 11, 1863

This volume chronicles a year that was enlivened by scientific controversy relating to Darwin's transmutation theory.

Charles Darwin (Author), Frederick Burkhardt (Edited by), Duncan Porter (Edited by), Sheila Ann Dean (Edited by), Jonathan R. Topham (Edited by), Sarah Wilmot (Edited by)

9780521590334, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 September 1999

1086 pages, 46 b/w illus.
24.2 x 16.4 x 5.9 cm, 1.64 kg

' … this authoritative work is a model of scholarship in both its comprehensiveness and supporting documentation which provides a rich source of background, biographical and bibliographical detail.' The Naturalist

This volume includes many letters not previously published, and chronicles a year that was enlivened by scientific controversy and filled with scientific queries and discussions relating to Darwin's transmutation theory. His love of botany and his expanding experimental programme is well depicted by correspondence with professional botanists, horticulturalists, and hobbyists. Nine appendixes complement the letters by providing additional information from the Darwin Archive and from nineteenth-century publications. The letters also provide glimpses of life among the Victorian gentry, and reveal the practical and emotional support Darwin received from his family. Awarded the Founder's Medal of the Society of the History of Natural History, and the Modern Language Association of America's first Morton N. Cohen Award for a distinguished edition of letters.

List of illustrations
List of letters
Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of provenances
Note on editorial policy
Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy
Abbreviations and symbols
The Correspondence, 1863
Appendixes
Manuscript alterations and comments
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Bibliography
Notes on manuscript sources
Index.

Subject Areas: Evolution [PSAJ], History of science [PDX]